Specialization - Idealism and Its Critics

PHIL 3337  Idealism and Its Critics

Prerequisites:

Any 3 credits in Philosophy

Antirequisites:

PHIL 3335

Hours:

Three hours of seminar per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students explore the work of late eighteenth and nineteenth idealist philosophers, such as Fichte and Hegel, who addressed traditional problems in new ways and emphasized the role and necessity of “speculative reason” in philosophy. This is followed by consideration of the critical reception of idealism in the later nineteenth century as reflected, for instance, in the work of Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard.



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